Bernard Vatant wrote:
Have you any plans to link those data with geonames.org data?
Yes and no ;-)
Of course we want to interlink the OSM data with as many other data
sources as possible. Candidates are Geonames, Wiki/DBpedia,
Worldfactbook, OpenResearch [1] etc.
Such interlinkages fit also very well into the OSM data model (which is
very close to RDF in many aspects). Basically everybody can start
creating links between the data sources by either using
http://LinkedGeoData.org/browser or via OSM's REST API (any other OSM
editor will do as well). Right now we are busy creating an complete RDF
dump and setting up the bi-directional live syncronization between
LinkedGeoData.org and OSM. So feel free to create mappings and store
them in OSM's DB via its API. They will then also show up automatically
on LinkedGeoData.org.
Best,
Sören
[1] http://OpenResearch.org
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